[20220421]IF10486_防务基础：海军部队.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated April 21, 2022Defense Primer: Naval Forces“Naval Forces” Refers to Both the Navy and Marine Corps Although the term naval forces is often used to refer specifically to Navy forces, it more properly refers to both Navy and Marine Corps forces, because both the Navy and Marine Corps are naval services. For further discussion, see CRS In Focus IF10484, Defense Primer: Department of the Navy, by Ronald ORourke. For a discussion of the Marine Corps that focuses on its organization as a ground-combat force, see CRS In Focus IF10571, Defense Primer: Organization of U.S. Ground Forces, by Barbara Salazar Torreon and Andrew Feickert. U.S. Strategy and Naval Forces U.S. naval forces give the United States the ability to convert the worlds oceansa global commons that covers more than two-thirds of the planets surfaceinto a medium of maneuver and operations for projecting U.S. power ashore and otherwise defending U.S. interests around the world. The ability to use the worlds oceans in this mannerand to deny other countries the use of the worlds oceans for taking actions against U.S. interestsconstitutes an immense asymmetric advantage for the United Stat